I haven't done any martial arts in decades but I'm pretty sure I just had random bruises all the time when I did. I definitely do now I play ice hockey: I probably practice 2-3 times a week plus sometimes games at weekends, and even though we're non-checking we're still allowed contact, plus I fall over or stop pucks so yeah, sometimes there are bruises even with padding.
Sometimes you remember how you got them (like the spectacular one I got once on my leg from a blocked shot that landed just where the armour ends on my hockey shorts), sometimes you're just like "huh, wonder where that one came from".
My bruises tend to heal up within a few days, even that epic one mentioned above was gone in a week, so two weeks ago would have been a really hard hit (and I do not have the medical knowledge to know how bad the damage behind it would be).
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Date: 2025-05-14 11:45 am (UTC)I haven't done any martial arts in decades but I'm pretty sure I just had random bruises all the time when I did. I definitely do now I play ice hockey: I probably practice 2-3 times a week plus sometimes games at weekends, and even though we're non-checking we're still allowed contact, plus I fall over or stop pucks so yeah, sometimes there are bruises even with padding.
Sometimes you remember how you got them (like the spectacular one I got once on my leg from a blocked shot that landed just where the armour ends on my hockey shorts), sometimes you're just like "huh, wonder where that one came from".
My bruises tend to heal up within a few days, even that epic one mentioned above was gone in a week, so two weeks ago would have been a really hard hit (and I do not have the medical knowledge to know how bad the damage behind it would be).